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Festival of Care

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This week, we have been preparing for The Festival of Care 2022.  The Festival runs from Friday 18th February until Tuesday 22nd.  Our school, along with all the other Shetland schools, have received a pack with suggested ideas for us to work through.  The #ShetlandCrew are a group of care experienced children and young adults who are asking us all to think about the different types or combination of families that children grow up in and to be aware that, for some children, growing up can be difficult, especially if they are care experienced.

The theme for this year is, ‘Tending the Light’ and they are asking us to think about the following questions.

  • Do you have someone who is a lighthouse for you?
  • What makes them a lighthouse?
  • How do you think you can be a lighthouse for the children and young people who need it most?

We looked at examples of care experienced characters in famous books and films and spoke about the different families they grew up in and what these characters have in common.

We enjoyed playing some games suggested by the #ShetlandCrew to get us thinking about what it may feel like to be care experienced.

Finally, we created our own lighthouse window art that will be displayed next week to show our support for all those who are care experienced throughout Shetland.

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One of the games saw us leading a friend who could not see. They had to put their trust in a friend to safely guide them.
Everyone was kind and gentle towards those who could not see.
It felt strange not knowing where we were going. That was when we had to trust our partner knew what to do!
Andrew felt like he was falling but Ryan was there to catch him!
I’m right behind you, Eilidh!
It was a strange feeling!
The second game saw us forming a tight circle around a friend who could not see.   They were then spun around and around until dizzy!
We spoke about how this felt. They didn’t know which direction to move in. They felt dizzy and a little out of control.
As they started their journey to find their place back in the circle, there were kind hands reaching out to guide them and show them the way.
There you go Jade! Well done!
We started making our lighthouses that will be displayed next week. How fitting to have the light streaming in on us as we worked!
Andrew, Scott, Robbie and Ayanda get started.
Archie, Rachel, Lily and Freya worked together.
Scarlett, Jade and Olga happy at their work!
Ryan, Innes and Ruben take a rest from glue and tissue paper!
Coming on nicely!
Amazing teamwork! Almost done!  We look forward to sharing our finished window displays next week!

 

 

Our Day…

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Today we have been looking at our digestive system.  We worked in small groups to demonstrate what is happening inside our bodies when we eat food.  We used everyday items to represent different things inside our bodies.

First we “ate” some food (crackers and bananas) and it travelled to our stomachs (plastic bag).

Then we added saliva (water) and stomach acid (orange juice) to help break down the food in the stomach.

Next our stomach muscles got to work and squeezed all of

the food until it was a gloopy mixture.

 

I wonder if everyone liked this part…?

Then the food was transported to the small intestine (tights) where it was again pushed and squeezed by many muscles.  This allowed all of the useful nutrients to be squeezed out for the body to use, leaving behind what our body doesn’t need.

After that, whatever was left over was sent to the large intestine (cup) and left the body as poo!  This was the part that many found too disgusting to watch!!

Poor Peter just couldn’t look!

We began our new novel today The Nowehere Emporium.  Don’t worry if you are not in school right now, you can catch up with the story on Teams!  Mrs Smith will post more information on this soon.

After playtime we did some Maths, focusing on different aspects of multiplication.   Keep practising at home too everyone!

In the afternoon we spent time in our research groups to begin our posters.  Each group has chosen an aspect of Human Body that they would like to find out about.  Everyone worked so well in their groups, making sure all members had a job to do and felt included.

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